I wanted a laser printer as they get far more pages for a given amount of money spent on cartridges than inkjets do and the quality is great. I didn't want to pay for Postscript, so I got the HP LaserJet 1100. As other posters have noted, ghostscript handles the Postscript interpretation for me on postscript printing, but when I print TeX formatted documents (e.g. GNU stuff) i can get great quality using dvilj4 - no postscript stage at all!
hey perhaps you should resist the urge for caffeine after the seventh cup of coffee.
My company runs NT, 95, 98, DG/UX, Solaris, Digital Unix and RedHat Linux.
When I see innacuracies on Slashdot, or news.com or whatever for that matter, I don't need to swear or post in all bold text. I think your comment about "anything but Linux is dead wrong" - it's sneaking in all over the place IME.
Could all these boxes somehow chain their power supplies too, or would I need another three power strips in the corner of my apartment to fit a powerplug (or even god help me more AC adaptors) for each of them?
Instead of a shitty CP/M knock off taking over, CP/M would have enjoyed the rise of the killer micros. After all CP/M is what IBM were after originally. Also so many other interesting possibilities might have happened that your post seems to describe the least likely situation.
"most popular word processing format on the planet"
Perhaps closely followed by plain ascii?
My company has standardised on Word I think but I just write my stuff in plain txt or perhaps html. One time someone came to me and asked me how I did the cool bullet points in ascii...
DCL is powerful at text processing but I wouldn't say it's efficient. Back in my DCL days we did a code post-processor in DCL (it was post code generation, so it was a post-processor, even though it was also pre-compilation and hence also a pre-processor). Once the functionality was proven I had to get it rewritten in TPU by a monster TPU coder I had working for me at the time to get any kind of reasonable performance (he did it in a day). These days I suppose it would have been hacked together in bad Perl (the only kind I can write) and then rewritten, still in Perl.
In the text adventure embedded inside Emacs (M-x dunnet) you can find a circuit board for a VAX lying around. If you find the cabinet, you can insert the board and the machine boots up and gives you a login prompt. You can log into the VAX and look at the filesystem. Any objects you had with you appear as 'objects' in the file system (e.g. shovel.o). There is also paper.o.Z.
"Wait a minute" you think,"I didn't have a piece of paper", so you uncompress the file and then log out and, lo and behold, there is a slip of paper with a clue written on it.
Things get even weirder later when you telnet from the VAX somewhere else and your body in the adventure is transported to another room with no way back...
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Not to mention some of you losers overloading the poor elderly power circuits in your apartment building with four computers, five monitors, an air-conditioner, scanner, hub, modem, powered speakers, toaster oven all from one wall outlet near the phone socket... oh no, wait, that's me, sorry.
>This article is by a guy who doesn't know enough >to make any real sense. It should be ignored. >He's new and making assumptions > because of what the media (ie, ZDNet) says.
Now THAT's ironic! Go to google. Type in Unix and Garfinkel. Do some reading. Please.
Some of the best bits of Cryptonomicon involve our hero Boby Shaftoe (I love Neil S.s character names e.g. Hiro Protagonist!) trying to lay enough false trails of non-existant spying to justify the actions the allies are taking based on decoded crypto. BTW Much as I loved Cryptonomicon, I still think/. readers not familiar with Neil Stephenson's work should start with Snow Crash.
>But you've got to remember that there's a little >division of Compaq from Maynard, Massachusetts. >Ever hear of Digital Equipment Corp.? >Ever hear of a The Man They Called maddog?
Well yes and no. maddog is leaving Compaq, but I think he's going to VA Research so he can do even more Linux evangelism.
Another alternative available to allow parameterised classes is Ada95. Using the AppletMagic compiler one can make JVM compatible byte code from Ada95 source - Ada95 being an ISO standard Pascal like 3GL with built-in OOP, multi-threading, hierarchical generics (templates), namespaces, exceptions etc. The GNU Ada95 Compiler (GNAT) is expected to include a JBC backend soon - see this. Ada compilers are _so_ strict (trust me on this) that when translating Java language demos into the equivalent Ada95 for compilation with AppletMagic, the authors found some bugs that the Sun Java compiler didn't!
Unfair! Both sides invented it separately. The key thing to remember is that although the British effort was first, it was classified. Classified crypto is so far ahead of publically available stuff that it's a different race - they are the Ben Johnson 100 meters record holders, where instead of drugs they have superior resources and perhaps most of the best reasearchers.
Chris Morgan -British and American, as it happens (both passports).
Back in the 80s in my first job I read in the professional computer press an anecdote of an IBM disk upgrade which was horribly expensive and consisted of a technician _removing_ a part which allowed the other half of the disk to be accessed. I think this was known as "slugging" a product. I have no idea if it's really true but illustrates that the idea has been known for a very long time. Every manufacturer has indulged in it at some point or other it seems. The thing is, everyone seems to react naturally and rapidly with the feeling that it's dead wrong and an insult. Especially the people likely to develop fierce brand loyalty and build strong nurturing user communities.
I was in the textbook section of Barnes & Noble on 18th and 5 Avenue here in NYC last Friday looking at his books. This is a great place to see what books the professionals use. There was a large stack of new and used copies of his Advanced Programming ITUE book. This to me indicates they sell and sell and sell. Of course the number of copies I see every day at the large Unix based companies I work at is another clue. A great man, and a great loss, but not a disaster - the books remain and clearly a lot of people were touched by his spirit as well and will keep his memory alive.
I thought it went to a good cause, which was the reason I had the impulse to link to his site. The bit about a lens was just a joke! Sorry if anyone didn't appreciate it.
I really liked this book too. I think people should buy it and read it, even if they don't agree with it all (I certainly didn't). Some nitpicking points : the reproduction was just a little disappointing on some pages (visible grain) although the color reproduction seemed great to me. I don't understand why it wasn't every bit as nicely printed as, say, Wired Magazine. There are some typos in some places (damn! should have made a list) and I think each reader will find her own section where she knows more than Phil and therefore the generalised recommendations seem a little too generic.
On the positive side, I love the authors photos, buy camera equipment based on his recommendations (Yashica T4-Super - Mmmm Carl Zeiss lens!) and I always try to imagine what cutting quips he would come up with when visiting my little vanity web site. The high-level recommendations are all spot-on even when some of the detail can be quibbled with (Phil is not necessarily up-to-date with Linux, FCAL disk arrays, Sun hardware etc) but this book is thought provoking! I personally now feel I have some clue about SQL and when I would need to use it, and that alone is worth the price. The best example of the quirky nature of Phil is that he has enough self-awareness to have pages devoted to his narcissism, which deflates any accusations of egomania, and yet he complains when people address him as Phil not Philip. Well perhaps he shouldn't be quite so proud of his email address which hasn't changed for 20 years (philg@mit.edu - perhaps that's a clue why they do it!).
To buy the book go to here and give Phil the click-through commision, you know he'll give some good cause web access with the proceeds (or perhaps buy a monster lens, either is fine with me!).
Yes, even Carmack doesn't think Carmack is a compiler god. You don't have to go much further than this idiotic suggestion to discount this article. Whatever the state of the Intel Merced compiler you can count on the fact that there are some incredible minds working away on it, people at the top of their fields like John C. is in his.
I started off with Linux on Slackware in early '96. I had a very modest PC then and I still do, and so I've just kept using Slack. I've never felt held back by it (apart from the time it takes to upgrade) and I like the hackability of it. I very much appreciate the total stability I have had from it. I get the impression that some of the more popular distros have had flaky moments, but since Slackware 96 I haven't had any inexplicable crashes (only crashes are due to blowing out swap space or bad kernel build decisions). I've got one spare partition left and i think Slack 4.0 is such an interesting development to me that I'll finally get myself a CheapBytes preview (have been happy enough with Walnut Creek up till now).
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I wanted a laser printer as they get far more pages for a given amount of money spent on cartridges than inkjets do and the quality is great. I didn't want to pay for Postscript, so I got the HP LaserJet 1100. As other posters have noted, ghostscript handles the Postscript interpretation for me on postscript printing, but when I print TeX formatted documents (e.g. GNU stuff) i can get great quality using dvilj4 - no postscript stage at all!
Chris Morgan
hey perhaps you should resist the urge for caffeine after the seventh cup of coffee.
My company runs NT, 95, 98, DG/UX, Solaris,
Digital Unix and RedHat Linux.
When I see innacuracies on Slashdot, or news.com or whatever for that matter, I don't need to swear or post in all bold text. I think your comment about "anything but Linux is dead wrong" - it's sneaking in all over the place IME.
Chris Morgan
Could all these boxes somehow chain their power supplies too, or would I need another three power
strips in the corner of my apartment to fit a powerplug (or even god help me more AC adaptors) for each of them?
Chris Morgan
Hardly.
Instead of a shitty CP/M knock off taking over, CP/M would have enjoyed the rise of the killer micros. After all CP/M is what IBM were after originally. Also so many other interesting possibilities might have happened that your post seems to describe the least likely situation.
"most popular word processing format on the planet"
Perhaps closely followed by plain ascii?
My company has standardised on Word I think but I just write my stuff in plain txt or perhaps html. One time someone came to me and asked me how I did the cool bullet points in ascii...
Dude ... those are lower-case 'o's!
o Like this
o And another thing
o etc
Chris Morgan
"The big question now is exactly what laws were violated, and exactly what the remedies will be."
I am reminded of the following quote from Aliens :
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"
Oh, err, just kidding!
Chris Morgan
-not advocating violence towards anyone
DCL is powerful at text processing but I wouldn't say it's efficient. Back in my DCL days we did a code post-processor in DCL (it was post code generation, so it was a post-processor, even though it was also pre-compilation and hence also a pre-processor). Once the functionality was proven I had to get it rewritten in TPU by a monster TPU coder I had working for me at the time to get any kind of reasonable performance (he did it in a day). These days I suppose it would have been hacked together in bad Perl (the only kind I can write) and then rewritten, still in Perl.
Chris MorganAlong similar lines :
In the text adventure embedded inside Emacs (M-x dunnet) you can find a circuit board for a VAX lying around. If you find the cabinet, you can insert the board and the machine boots up and gives you a login prompt. You can log into the VAX and look at the filesystem. Any objects you had with you appear as 'objects' in the file system
(e.g. shovel.o). There is also paper.o.Z.
"Wait a minute" you think,"I didn't have a piece of paper", so you uncompress the file and then
log out and, lo and behold, there is a slip of paper with a clue written on it.
Things get even weirder later when you telnet from the VAX somewhere else and your body in the adventure is transported to another room with no way back...
Not to mention some of you losers overloading the ... oh no, wait, that's me, sorry.
poor elderly power circuits in your apartment building with four computers, five monitors, an air-conditioner, scanner, hub, modem, powered speakers, toaster oven all from one wall outlet near the phone socket
Chris
>This article is by a guy who doesn't know enough >to make any real sense. It should be ignored. >He's new and making assumptions
> because of what the media (ie, ZDNet) says.
Now THAT's ironic! Go to google. Type in Unix and Garfinkel. Do some reading. Please.
>I have been an avid Linux user since 1990.
Impressive. Linus started writing it in 1991.
>does he mention that Linux is barely 10 years old
I make it more like eight. Advocacy with incorrect facts is a major disappointment for me.
Some of the best bits of Cryptonomicon involve our hero Boby Shaftoe (I love Neil S.s character names e.g. Hiro Protagonist!) trying to lay enough false trails of non-existant spying to justify the actions the allies are taking based on decoded crypto. BTW Much as I loved Cryptonomicon, I still think /. readers not familiar with Neil Stephenson's work should start with Snow Crash.
>But you've got to remember that there's a little >division of Compaq from Maynard, Massachusetts. >Ever hear of Digital Equipment Corp.?
>Ever hear of a The Man They Called maddog?
Well yes and no. maddog is leaving Compaq, but I think he's going to VA Research so he can do even more Linux evangelism.
Another alternative available to allow parameterised classes is Ada95. Using the AppletMagic compiler one can make JVM compatible byte code from Ada95 source - Ada95 being an ISO standard Pascal like 3GL with built-in OOP, multi-threading, hierarchical generics (templates), namespaces, exceptions etc. The GNU Ada95 Compiler (GNAT) is expected to include a JBC backend soon - see this. Ada compilers are _so_ strict (trust me on this) that when translating Java language demos into the equivalent Ada95 for compilation with AppletMagic, the authors found some bugs that the Sun Java compiler didn't!
Unfair! Both sides invented it separately. The key thing to remember is that although the British effort was first, it was classified. Classified crypto is so far ahead of publically available stuff that it's a different race - they are the Ben Johnson 100 meters record holders, where instead of drugs they have superior resources and perhaps most of the best reasearchers.
Chris Morgan
-British and American, as it happens (both passports).
Back in the 80s in my first job I read in the professional computer press an anecdote of an IBM disk upgrade which was horribly expensive and consisted of a technician _removing_ a part which allowed the other half of the disk to be accessed. I think this was known as "slugging" a product. I have no idea if it's really true but illustrates that the idea has been known for a very long time. Every manufacturer has indulged in it at some point or other it seems. The thing is, everyone seems to react naturally and rapidly with the feeling that it's dead wrong and an insult. Especially the people likely to develop fierce brand loyalty and build strong nurturing user communities.
Chris Morgan
I was in the textbook section of Barnes & Noble on 18th and 5 Avenue here in NYC last Friday looking at his books. This is a great place to see what books the professionals use. There was a large stack of new and used copies of his Advanced Programming ITUE book. This to me indicates they sell and sell and sell. Of course the number of copies I see every day at the large Unix based companies I work at is another clue. A great man, and a great loss, but not a disaster - the books remain and clearly a lot of people were touched by his spirit as well and will keep his memory alive.
Chris Morgan
I thought it went to a good cause, which was the reason I had the impulse to link to his site. The bit about a lens was just a joke! Sorry if anyone didn't appreciate it.
Chris
I really liked this book too. I think people should buy it and read it, even if they don't agree with it all (I certainly didn't). Some nitpicking points : the reproduction was just a little disappointing on some pages (visible grain) although the color reproduction seemed great to me. I don't understand why it wasn't every bit as nicely printed as, say, Wired Magazine. There are some typos in some places (damn! should have made a list) and I think each reader will find her own section where she knows more than Phil and therefore the generalised recommendations seem a little too generic.
On the positive side, I love the authors photos, buy camera equipment based on his recommendations (Yashica T4-Super - Mmmm Carl Zeiss lens!) and I always try to imagine what cutting quips he would come up with when visiting my little vanity web site. The high-level recommendations are all spot-on even when some of the detail can be quibbled with (Phil is not necessarily up-to-date with Linux, FCAL disk arrays, Sun hardware etc) but this book is thought provoking! I personally now feel I have some clue about SQL and when I would need to use it, and that alone is worth the price. The best example of the quirky nature of Phil is that he has enough self-awareness to have pages devoted to his narcissism, which deflates any accusations of egomania, and yet he complains when people address him as Phil not Philip. Well perhaps he shouldn't be quite so proud of his email address which hasn't changed for 20 years (philg@mit.edu - perhaps that's a clue why they do it!).
To buy the book go to here and give Phil the click-through commision, you know he'll give some good cause web access with the proceeds (or perhaps buy a monster lens, either is fine with me!).
Chris Morgan
Yes, even Carmack doesn't think Carmack is a compiler god. You don't have to go much further than this idiotic suggestion to discount this article. Whatever the state of the Intel Merced compiler you can count on the fact that there are some incredible minds working away on it, people at the top of their fields like John C. is in his.
I started off with Linux on Slackware in early '96. I had a very modest PC then and I still do, and so I've just kept using Slack. I've never felt held back by it (apart from the time it takes to upgrade) and I like the hackability of it. I very much appreciate the total stability I have had from it. I get the impression that some of the more popular distros have had flaky moments, but since Slackware 96 I haven't had any inexplicable crashes (only crashes are due to blowing out swap space or bad kernel build decisions). I've got one spare partition left and i think Slack 4.0 is such an interesting development to me that I'll finally get myself a CheapBytes preview (have been happy enough with Walnut Creek up till now).